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Jim Budney
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
A highly accomplished and versatile finance professional, Jim worked on finance teams of top investment banks (Citigroup, Merrill Lynch), optimized returns of a $12 billion AUM hedge fund (Point 72), lead 12 surgery centers as CFO and executed over $25 million in M&A transactions in 2019. He joined Toptal to help advise clients on complex M&A, corporate finance, and VC transactions.
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David Berlin
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
David has served as a CFO at multiple private equity portfolio companies in the SaaS, manufacturing, and service sectors where he optimized revenue growth, profitability, and led acquisition initiatives. He has been a consultant since 2014 and leverages his skills in financial modeling, analysis, forecasting, M&A, and process enhancements to deliver value to his Toptal clients. He has an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School and is a CPA.
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Paulius Uziela, CFA
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Paulius has successfully closed eight seed/early-stage investments in AI, technology, SaaS, and telecommunications sectors. He also has experience working on debt transactions and biggest regional M&A deals in the Baltics while being employed at a leading consulting firm (Deloitte) and DNB bank. Paulius is CFA charterholder who enjoys freelancing to help clients on valuation, financial modeling, and fundraising projects.
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Neil Portus | CFA, CMA
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Neil is a CFO for growth companies and a former equity analyst at Goldman Sachs in NY where he helped lead numerous transactions including Zipcar's $1.1 billion IPO. He was also an equity analyst at Barclays Capital & Lehman Brothers and began his career at a boutique investment bank (M&A, restructuring, debt financings). He's built his operational skills both as a startup founder and as the CFO of an East Africa-focused impact investment firm.
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Marc Howland
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Marc is a Harvard Business School graduate with honors, a former investment banker from Goldman Sachs, and private equity investor at The Carlyle Group. He has helped execute more than $70 billion worth of global M&A and financing transactions in the tech, media, telecom, infrastructure and sports facility finance markets. Marc enjoys freelancing to contribute his knowledge and skills to others while working on his own early-stage ventures.
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Godfrey M. Bakuli
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Starting his career at Morgan Stanley, Godfrey has worked with both startups and large enterprises on $6 billion of strategic assignments. In 12+ years, this advisory has included M&A, divestitures, and equity and debt financings. Last year alone, he helped startups in the data center, transportation, drone infrastructure, and CPG spaces raise $14 million. Godfrey freelances as a means to broaden his network and deepen his industry knowledge.
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Josh Chapman
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Josh is an investment banker turned VC who lives in Denver, CO. At Morgan Stanley, he covered the world's top hedge funds and sold over $5 billion in IPOs for companies like Alibaba, LendingClub, GrubHub, and more. He also has experience in M&A, startup fundraising, and as a founder. Currently, Josh is one of the managing partners of Konvoy Ventures, a VC firm focused on esports and video gaming.
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Dhruv Tandan
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
Dhruv has worked on successful fundraises and consulting projects worth $1+ billion, with a focus on energy, tech, food, and life science projects across Asia, the US, and Africa. He is a partner at a consulting firm and has more than a decade of experience in fundraising, startup consulting, process improvement, M&A, and project finance. An MBA in finance, Dhruv enjoys the exposure and sheer variety of assignments that come with freelancing.
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Peter Jacobson
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
A Harvard grad with an MBA from Stanford, Peter has served as CFO of three successful companies, led several acquisitions, obtained growth capital, led recapitalization efforts, and led a successful exit for the shareholders. He's also raised $500 million+ for clients as a VP at KeyBanc Capital Markets, a commercial and investment bank. Peter enjoys freelancing to help clients with capital raising, M&A, FP&A, and various CFO-related functions.
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Surya Krishnan
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
With 15 years of finance, strategy, and deal experience, Surya most recently spearheaded the finance function for the US Digital businesses at Asia TV. He led corporate development, executing M&A transactions, and drove strategic planning—at the Fortune 100 firm Ingram Micro and MGA Entertainment. He performed $25+ billion of valuation advisory work at PwC. Freelancing allows him to provide critical analysis and guidance to corporate executives.
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Milda Jasaite
Freelance Small Business Operations Consultant
As a venture capital professional, Milda performed due diligence on numerous investment opportunities and held board observer roles at several high-growth marketplaces and SaaS companies for a European VC fund that managed $1+ billion. Milda is now a co-founder at an early-stage company 220g, a direct-to-consumer fashion startup. Milda leverages her competencies in business strategy and venture capital fundraising to assist in the Toptal network.
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